Dani

“But what is money? A physical representation of the abstract concept of effort.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“I long for a day when I awake and live from dawn to sleep without one moment of fear.”
― John Gwynne, The Fury of the Gods

“To preserve her faith in her parents, she must reject the first and most obvious conclusion that something is terribly wrong with them. She will go to any lengths to construct an explanation for her fate that absolves her parents of all blame and responsibility…. The abuse is either walled off from conscious awareness and memory…or minimized, rationalized, and excused, so that whatever did happen was not really abuse.”[1]”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“But you weren’t born an aristocrat. You’re not noble, Vin. You don’t have to play by their rules—and that makes you even more powerful.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire